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iii. - Extract
from the Progress Report of the Bureau and the Standing Committee
concerning the preparation of the Assembly’s budget Doc. 3292 (1973)

At its meeting on 25 January 1973,
the Bureau discussed a memorandum submitted by the Secretary General
on the preparation of the Consultative (Parliamentary) Assembly’s
Budget.

At its meeting on 23 March 1973, the
Standing Committee approved the new procedure suggested by the Secretary
General. The Secretariat of the Assembly will henceforth prepare
its estimates in co-operation with the appropriate Secretariat services.
These estimates will then be taken by the Assembly as a basis for
its budgetary proposals for the following year. The Assembly’s proposals
will be grouped in a separate document and the draft budget for
the whole Organisation, as presented by the Secretary General to
the Committee of Ministers, will refer, where the Assembly’s operational
expenditure is concerned, to the total appropriation which the latter
asks for in this separate document. However, if the Secretary General
should find himself in disagreement with any of the Assembly’s proposals,
he may, having first consulted the President of the Assembly, indicate
this to the Committee of Ministers and explain his reasons.